After speaking at DotNext Moscow, I had high expectations for WeAreDevelopers 2025 - and the event delivered on all fronts. Held in Berlin / Germany, it brought together a truly global crowd of developers, tech leaders, and innovators. As a speaker and software architect , I'm sharing my first-hand highlights, favorite moments, and candid scenes from this 2025's conference.
🗣 My Talk
From the speaker's dinner day. We've a good experience with the multi-tenancy topic in SaaS development. My talk's topic was "Building Multi-Tenant ASP.NET Core Applications: Best Practices and Real-World Solutions". It was on stage 4, 11 July Friday, 10:20 am - 10:50 am and this is my presentation file.
🏛 Huge Venue
The main stage. The image is credited to WeAreDevelopers organization
The main stage. The image is credited to the WeAreDevelopers organization First of all, I had been in numerous software conferences, I must say that I've never seen such a big software event. The event spanned 500+ sessions across 20+ stages, including the HR Leaders Summit for 2 full days.
🎤 Opening Keynote from GitHub
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke initiated the conference on the main stage with a talk on "Agents for the Sake of Happiness". Having introduced Copilot three years ago here, he now launched bold predictions about autonomous AI - a fascinating evolution… He demonstrated GitHub Co-Pilot's AI and created a snake game. Although it didn't work as he planned, we're developers, we know live coding is hard. Actually, that's because we shouldn't rely on AI. AI is not deterministic even though we set all those temperature, TopP, TopK parameters to a minimum, the result might not be the same as planned before. AI is a good but not trustworthy friend!
🧭 11 Parallel Stages: Rush
There were 11 stages where 11 different topics were being explained. And the sessions were 30 minutes. Actually, that's the downside of this event. Because there were such nice talks that needed to be at least 40 minutes. But anyway, I understand the organization, there are many smart speakers whose needs need to be included in this amazing event. So as an attendee, I was in a hurry to pick the next talk even when I was listening to a talk :) The venue consists of 3 buildings. So if you pick a talk in another building, you have 10 mins to go to the toilet or drink something and catch the next session in that building :)
There was an HR track with 3 stages and 2 full days of HR/Talent Acquisition programming, which attracted a notable overlap of developers and HR pros. Themes included AI‑powered re cruiting, remote work culture, mental health, diversity & inclusion, and building AI agents 🤖 AI & AI & AI & Others…
I'm one of those AI lover
s. I love learning cutting-edge information. And as I see, AI is becoming more trendy every day. That's why most of the talks were about AI. Everything related to AI. I generally attended AI-related talks because I'm also working on some AI topics in Volosoft at the moment.
🤝 Expo Floor & Networking
The expo was a developer's playground - cloud services, open‑source tools, startups, and enterprise platforms. I found new partners and reconnected with peers in a buzzing atmosphere. Everywhere was full of talking, even outside. If you want to get fresh air and drink coffee, you can go out and listen to the outside talks. Networking wasn't just daytime chatter - hallway meetups and evening socials were unforgettable.
Swag stations, sponsor games, "developer selfies" - these lighter moments kept the vibe upbeat and human.
✅ So…
WeAreDevelopers 2025 was an unforgettable three-day ride: 15,000 tech minds, 500+ sessions, and a true bridge between developers and HR
I'm leaving with:
- Fresh strategies in GenAI and SaaS growth
- Stronger HR-tech understanding and crossover potential
- New professional connections - and fun memories
You can get all the pictures I took at WeAreDevelopers 2025 at this address.
And by the way, check out the open-source ABP Framework! We are working really hard to give developers a nice and easy way to start a new ASP.NET Core project.
